Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:18:34 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a serious error in sched_ule.c? Message-ID: <xzpoeqywmjp.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040314235618.3cbe7278.wes@softweyr.com> (Wes Peters's message of "Sun, 14 Mar 2004 23:56:18 -0800") References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040309113959.26895J-100000@fledge.watson.org> <200403091201.23665.wes@softweyr.com> <xzpwu5tpxvh.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040314211654.05d0bb9f.wes@softweyr.com> <xzpwu5mwonv.fsf@dwp.des.no> <6.0.1.1.1.20040315074033.03b1cef0@imap.sfu.ca> <20040314235618.3cbe7278.wes@softweyr.com>
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Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> writes: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 07:42:59 +0000 Colin Percival > <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> alleged: > > At 07:32 15/03/2004, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > > >Actually, my wife is a molecular biologist and eats CPU hours with > > >milk and sugar for breakfast. She expressed her satisfaction > > >yesterday at finding out that her latest program only takes four and a > > >half hours per data set. "But honey," says I, "you have 30,000 data > > >sets!" Quoth the love of my life, "That's OK, we've got *two* > > >computers." > > ... and 8 years to waste, apparently. > Wowsers. Sounds like they need a cluster. Actually, the computers in question have 160 CPUs each, so she should be done in about three weeks :) DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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